The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-29
Edited 9erus and Motes

81 attend church on reiny Sundays
because-I expect my minister to be
there. should be surprised if he were
to stay at home for the weather"
DIR. McCosh denies that he proposes
to retire at present from the presidency
OF Princeton. He will remain until the
college is made full hedged university.
Prof. Henry Drummonds Natural
Law in the Spiritual World" has reached
a sale OF fifty thousand copies in Eng
land. Two editions of the work are on
the American market at the present time.
Rabbi Brown, OF the New York Tenn
pie Gates of Hope, says that one cause
OF the prosperity Of the Jews is the ad-
vantage gained from the leisure of the
half-holiday on Friday to prepare them
for their Saturday Sabbath.
The report is contradicted that Mr..
Gladstone was paid 81 ,250 for his article
on Tennyeon's new poem in the current
issue of The Nineteenth Century. 1t
appears that the amount paid was about
one fourth of that sum. 1t was good pay
even at that.
Theodore Parker, in 1856, utt cred
the following prophecy which is in rapid
course of fulfllment: "In the year of
our Lord 1900 there will be 100000 peo.
pie in Kansas, with cities like Providence
and Worcester-perhaps like Chicago and
Cincinnati. Her land will be worth 500
an acre, her total wealth will be $500,000,-
900 in money; 100000 will learn in her
schools. There will be Pacific railroad
perhaps more than one. The 114,OO0
square miles of Kansas $4,000 of which
have been given to Colorado will fill up
with educated and industrious men,"
Rev DR.. F. A. Farley, of Brooklyn,
the venerable Unitarian divine, whose
ordination sermon DR.. Charming preached
fifty eight years ago. states his position
thus: 81 stand for more distinct organi-
cation among us. l stand for a creed,
not to be used as Procrustean bed, not
as an instrument actual or possible of
persecution in word or deed, but as a
symbol, an express and Ineligible state
ment, showing beyond all doubt or cavil
our adherence to the faith of the Uniyer-
sal Church in Christianity, in the Gospel,
in Christ himself. I stand for an organi-
cation based on such creed, and holding
it up through all time before the world.
L think we owe it to him, the Great Head
of the Church, to God who sent him, to
truth ITSELF that we do this"
The year 1886 marked the abolition
in England of one long lingering relic
of the semi barbaric Roman law, the
"patria potestas" principle. Up to the
last year an English mother did not be-
come the guardian of her children at
their fathers death, nor did she have any
voice In selecting one. The father in life
was sole guardian of the children, and
dying he could delegate that office to
whom he pleased, to the entire exclusion
of the mother. Even now the paternal
authority in life remains almost absolute.
But by the law passed by Mr.. Gladstone's
Government, every widow has been made,
either alone or jointly with an app ointee
of her deceased husband, or the court,
the guardian of her children while she
lives, and she may appoint person to
take her place in that capacity after her
death. That such a rational measure
should have been delayed until within
the last twelve months is a striking Illus
tration of John Bulls conservatism.
In his sermon, a week ago, Mr..
Beecher said: "Ihe man who goes to
heaven to escape hell is one of those who
shall be saved as by fire. The distinctive
characteristic of this age is the transition
period between fear and love in the realm
of religious thought. AS the world grows
better, appeals to fear will grow less and
appeals to love will increase. Eternal
conscious torment is more hideous than
devils could dream. The old barbaric
representations of terror are being re-
volted from in our time, and men incline
moro toward the Gospel. But in destroy
ing the fear Of the devil we must not fail
to bring in the love of God. When men
reprove me for laxity of doctrine will
take no reproof. There is enough motive
in the divine heart of Christ to affect the
life of every man. A man is coarse and
torpid who can only be aroused by the
thunder of Sinai. Fear hell if you must;
love God and fear to offend Him if You
may"
The events which happened at st.
Stephens Roman Catholic Church,
New York, Sunday last, when Father
McGlynn, the priest who is now under
the disfavor of Rome, was forbidden to
minister to the people who respect him
and want him for their spiritual leader
and adviser, and who did not want the
priest who was sent to them, as was
shown by their frigid treatment of him,
could have happened in no other church
than the Roman Catholic. The con-
gregations of Protestant churches very
often rid themselves of a pastor who
has made himself obnoxious to them,
but pastor is never elected from his
church against their will. This out
rage could only occur at st. Stephens